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Old 06-12-2012, 11:11 PM   #1
manadecide
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Cant shutdown laptop Ubuntu 12.04


Im having a problem were if my laptop is unplugged and running on the battery. when i go to shutdown the laptop all it does is restart, but when the laptop is plugged in it will shutdown as normal

im running ubuntu 12.04 and i have a sony vaio f series
 
Old 06-13-2012, 12:11 AM   #2
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Try booting with ACPI disabled.

You can do this by appending acpi=off to the grub bootline entry starting with kernel.
 
Old 06-13-2012, 08:22 AM   #3
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disabling acpi does not work, i also tried to disable acpi threw the bios wich failed aswell
 
Old 06-13-2012, 11:50 PM   #4
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what happens if you shutdown from the terminal i.e. the command "shutdown -h now" or "halt".
 
Old 06-14-2012, 08:41 AM   #5
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when i use the command "shutdown -h now" or "halt" it seems like its going to shut down but it starts right back up again
 
Old 06-14-2012, 09:13 AM   #6
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thanks guys for the help but i found that removing laptop-mode-tool fix's my problem
 
  


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